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The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-30
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According to Dr. CnaIleS IL. DuTnott
the use OF properly constructed ear
trumpets improve the hearing perma-
nently as well as aids it for the time. ,
The cause of deafness being usually
anchylosis, produced by a catarrhal
thickening of mucous membrane or
the auditory parts, passive motion over
comes the immobllity that has been
induced in them. The form of passive
motion which acts most naturally here
is that off sound. This form OF passive
motion which acts most naturally here
is that of sound. This form of passive
motion, augmented az 1t is by means OF
the ear-trumpet, acting frequently and
Systematically upon the ear, prevents
further a~nchyiosis, and the fatty degen-
Grafton of the auditory nerve that comes
from desuetude. This, of course. tends
to a permanent improvement OF the
hearing, and in some cases patients
come to heal without the trumpet.
~
Sbdle is now being used to a consld-
cradle extent in the manufacture OF
illuminating gas in Scotland. The
rich camel Goals of that country keep
rising in price, owing to foreign export
and the ~gasmakers are taking to sup
plying oil shales to the retorts. The
Dundee Gas Works buy from 1900 to
$1,000 tons of sbale yearly, a proper
ton equal to about o%ne-fourth of the
gas.coal consumed. There are large
areas of shale and what is called ''bas-
tardn camel in Scotland, and these are
expected to supply the place OF II
richer cannals becoming used up. AT
Coatbridge nearly as much shale as coal
is now used in the gas mandatory.
Comparatively few persons are aware
the diameter OF a circle OF a pipe with
an area equal to that of any two other
ones may be found by means OF moth
ing but the square corner or a board
and a rule, without the aid OF any cal
culation. The process consists SIMPLY
in laying off the two diameters on Two
edges of the board and measuring dla-
gonally from one to the other. If a
carpenters square is handy the process
is reduced TO the simple diagonal
measurement. In case there are three
or more pipes to be led into one, any
two of them may be converted into an
equivalent one, and this one may u"
added to the other.
The Lewis fire %extinctor, which has
been adopted by the Marquis of Sails
bury at Hatfield, and is also to be used
by The birmingham Fire Brigade, Is
about the size of a policeman's trunch-
con. At the upper end is a wire. loop
by which 1t is hung from a nail or
staple. y sudden pull (of about ten
poundsl detaches the extinctor from
the cap, opens the tube and scatteri
the contents on the blazing fire. II
contains a liquid which has the prop
erty of sitting a IRE. Recent expert
ments with the device at the Crysta
Palace on burning timbers soaked with
petroleum were entirely successful.
10 is said that furnished colored gold
articles may be restored by the follow
ing method: Dissolve u ounce o.
blcarbonate of soda, half an o
chloride of lime, and half an ounce o
common salt in about four ounces o
boiling water. Take a clean brush
and wash the article with the hot solu'
ton for u few seconds, and rinse imms
diately in two clean waters. Dry II
warm sawdust, and finally rub owe
with tissue paper.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-30

1.-THE sting of reproach is the truth
of lt.n
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The credit that Is got by a lie only
lasts till the truth comes out.
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DEs1e1sfa

persistent attention and a remedy that will assist
nature TO throw of the causes and tone up the
digestive organs till they perform their duties
willingly. Among the agonies experienced By the
dyspeptic. are distress before or after eating, loss
of appetite, irregularities Of the bowels, wind OF
gas and pain In tho stomach, heartburn, sour
stomach, ETC., causing mental depression, nervous
irritability and slceplessness. IL you are dis
couraged be OF good cheer and try Hoods sar
saparilla. 1t has cured hundreds It Will cure you.
Hood'si S~arsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for IS. Made
only by C. ]. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass. 8
fE. 100 Doses One Dollar .
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IAok-What | Are You smoking

Harry.-Yes, dash IL all Cora
refused my offer of marriage last night,
and I don't care now what become o
me.
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FARM NOTES.

THE easiest and quickest way tt
draw manure is to dump it in heaps,
especially II loaded upon a loose box
with movable sideboards. But whan
these advantages are conceded nothing
more remains to be said in favor OF
the practice. 1t is not true, as used
to be supposed, that manure wastes
materially when spread upon the soil.
In fact, this is the best method OF
preventing waste. There is less fer
mentation in manure when 1t Is spread
upon the Gurface Of the ground then
there could be in any other position.
No smell OF ammonia escapes from 1t.
IL rains come while manure is spread
they only wash its soluble plant food
into the soil when 1t lie needed. IL
manure is piled IN heaps 1t can scarcely
ever be evenly distributed afterward.
Under the heap will be a rich place
from the drainage of the manure water
into the soil, rel though every solid
particle of manure has been removed.
A FRUIT grower states that he found
two ounces of nitrate OF soda, applied
by digging down to the tap root Of the
~peach-tree, an excellent renovator for
the trees when the leaves had partially
become yellow. In a few days the
trees assumed a beautiful green color,
and showed no signs of disease. This
is well worthy the consideration Of all
who are interested. Nitrate Of soda
is simply crude Chile saltpetre, which
may be purchased for about four cents
per pound. For fertilizing purposes,
the crude is as good as the refined.
Its composition is nitric acid and soda,
both Of which are used as food by
plants.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-30

Golden Medical Discovery is Sold by Druggists Price s10O pei n"hao r ST Bottles for 5000
WORLDS pUsPEksARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS Pr0pHe"rs
NO. co. Main street, BUFFALO NJ W.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Prohibition a Necessity.

Multitudes of people who see many
difficulties, even in theory, in the way
of prohibition, yet are constrained in
precisely the same direction as Rev. j.
p. COyle of North Adams, who uttered
himself as follows, in a recent sermon !:
If license could be enforced, | should
prefer it to prohibition because it
would restrict the sale of liquor to
men of full age and i'll the exercise of
their senses and, whatever l believe
about the expediency of such mems
drinking liquor, L would rather not in
terfere by law with their liberty to do
so.
Yet | have sometimes favored pro-
hibition, and it is probable | shall
have to favor it again. The evil of
intemperance has sometimes doomed
up before me in such awful dimensions
that [ have been willing to see it wiped
out, even at the cost of a temporary
suspension of what in ordinary Cir
cumstances is a liberty of the citizen.
The evil of slavery was SO great that
many were willing to see it abolished
at the expense of war and although
cooler heads urged moderation, yet
after John Browns illegal raid and
Abraham Lincoln's eXtra-legal eXecu-
tive order had put an end to it, every
body rejOiced and FASTENED to legalize
the abolition. Now, L confess that L
halt and hesitate between my loyalty
to the American principle, that all
evils can be righted without invading
the liberty of the citizen even in small
things, and my inexpressible horror in
the presence of this evil.
That, however, which does most to
make a prOhibitiOnist of me is the fact
that the liquor business has formed
itself into "a mighty political power,
which has more money behind it than
slavery ever had, and shows an equal
disposition to override law so that in
nearly all parts of this country the
most obviously just provisions for re-
strictiOns are nullitied.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
MORE RAILROAD DISASTERS.
Carelessness Causes Death and Injury

Many.
The st. Louis, Chicago & Cincinnati
express on the Baltimore & Ohio, was
badly wrecked near the Washington
railroad station last week Wednesday
morning. Engineer Hamilton Brosius
was scalded to death at his post, and
IL other passengers were more or less
injured, several seriously. Improper
working of the air brakes is said to
have caused the accident. The train
consisted of seven cars-express, bag
and postal cars, a smoker, an ordinary
passenger car and two sleepers. 1t
was approaching the city at high rate
of speed when the air brakes ceased to
work. The engineer whistled for the
other brakes, but it was too late, and
the train ran upon what is known as
the "Y" near the depot at the rate of
40 miles an hour. The curve was very
sharp, and the express car jumped the
track and struck the signal tower. A
general wreck ensued, and all the cars,
except the sleeper, were badly smash
ed. The large signal tower was de-
molished, and the telegraph operator,
William Baxter, who escaped by jump
ing through window, broke his arm.
Three mail clerks in the postal car
were only badly bruised and scratched,
although the car was reduced to kind
ling wood The Washington Star says
editorially: "The deadly 'Y' on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad added this
morning strange case to this years
long list of railroad disasters. Too
great speed on an incoming train, de-
fective brakes and the curve of the ~
combined to send the train, like great
projectile, flying through brick struc
ture and burying itself in part in the
buildings ruins. That no more lives
were lost is marvellous" The direct
responsibility appears to have been
with the engineer of the Inflated train,
which, being behind time, was rushing
in from the West at the rate of 40 or
SO miles an hour.
Another accident is reported at
Pittsburg, Pa, on Thursday. The
through express train from Chicago
over the Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail
way was wrecked at Bayard, 0. The
train was made up of three baggage
and express cars, one smoker, one pas
senger coach, two Chicago sleepers
aud Toledo sleeping car, which was
attached to the rear of the train. After
leaving Alliance the train was proceed
ing at the rate of 80 miles an hour. AS
it swung around a sharp curve near
Bayard, the rails spread and the Tole-
do sleeper was derailed, falling on it's
side. The two Chicago sleepers also
jumped the track, but after running
nearly 300 yards they were pulled on
again and escaped injury. When the
crash came, the porter, o. Warner, ran
to the forward platform and jumped,
but got off on the wrong side of the
Car, and when it fell over on its side,
was buried under it. Fortunately
there were only three passengers and
the fiagman on the sleeper, and in the
meantime they were being tossed about
the car like balls and all seriously hurt.
The passengers in the other sleepers
were badly shaken up, but sustained
no injuries.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
St. Johnsbury Church Directory.

Ad0ent-PaddOck Village. Rev. John Ward
Sabbath Services at 1890 a m, Las and $3.50 p NJ
Sabbath School II m. Prayer Meetings at 1880 p,
III. Sunday, Tuesday and Friday evenings
Baptist-Raroad Street. Corner Maple. Rev.
e. L. SandfOrd, Pastor. Preaching 1850 4. NJ. S.
School II M. Prayer meeting $50. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 1880.
Free BaptiSt-Main Street. Corner Prospect.
Rev. f. K. Dawson, pastor. Sabbath services 1890
AN, and 6:3O p. M sabbath School at IL M Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 1880.
Church Of the MeSsiah-( Universalist.) Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street Rev. K. A. Hoyt,
Sabbath School at 1900. Wednesday evening
meeting at 1880.
lIethodiSt-Central street. Rev. L. p. Frost
Pastor. residence next to the Church. Sab
bath services at 1920 A M, and $3.50 P. Sabbath
School at II %. Wednesday evening meeting at
1880.
North COngregatiOnaL-Main street. corner OF
Church. Rev. Chas M. LamsOn, Pastor. Sabbath
School at LAS p. M. Wednesday evening meeting
at 1870
South COngregatiOnaL-Main street. Rev. Ed
ward L. Fairbanks. Pastor. Sabbath services at
1920 M, and $50 P. NJ. Sabbath School at IL NJ.
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
Presbyterian Ohurch-Eastern Avenue. Rev. w.
Il. Laird, Pastor. Sabbath services at 1880 a.
and $50 p. Sabbath school at II IN. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 1880.
st. AndreW'S-(EpiscOpalJ Main street, Rev
- Rector. Services Sundays at
1870 a. m, and p. Wednesdays at 1880 p. M
Sunday School, at ~ m.
Roman OGtholic-Cherry Street. Rev. j. A.
BoissOnnault, Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. m
second Sunday of the month, service at $3.50 a. M,
and p. III. At LyndOnville same day at 1880 a. IN
Y. IL. G. A.-Meetings at one of the churches
Sunday mornings at 9.3O Young Mems meeting
A. on Eastern avenue. Building opposite Soldiers
Monument.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
A Story about a successful Man.

Here's a story about well known
railroad man which Chicago railroad
er, who used to work with him, relates.
1t is about William M. Clements, who
leaves the Erie Express to become gem
eral manager of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad east of the Ohio river, and is
from the columns of the New York
Sun;
Clements career has been a remark
able one in many respects, and he is
certainly a remarkable man in every
respect. Prior to the war he was
freight conductor on the Baltimore &
Ohio, and he first met John w. Gar
rett, then president of the road, near
Wheeling, w. Va. Three rear cars of
Conductor Clements train were derail-
ed one day near Wheeling, and Glenn
ents took the red signal and went back
to flag an express, which he knew was
following. He sent the engineer and
fireman ahead to stop all trains coming
from that direction and to get assis-
lance, hurriedly calling out to stupid
brakeman: "Pull the train ahead
about hundred yards" The rear
cars had commenced to burn from the
broken stove in the cabOose, and Glenn
ents wanted to save valuable freight In
the others.
The brakeman climbed aboard the
engine, but was too stupid to pull the
throttle. The whole train was burned,
causing loss of over $4,000.
When Clements returned to the scene
with some of the passengers from the
express, which he had stopped half a
mile away, he looked at the stupid
brakeman, then foored him with one
powerful blow. A stout, quiet looking
passenger walked up to Clements and
said: "Why did you desert your
train 2 You could have sent that man
back with the flag and saved these cars
yourself. 1t seems to me that you
don't know your business"
Clements is broad shOuldered six
fOOter, and when he glared at his auda-
ciOus critic many people supposed
there would be another knOck-dOwn.
"Why, you fool !" he replied contempt
uOusly, "dO you suppose | was going
to trust that man | knew he was a
fool, like yourself, and that's the rea-
son l let him monkey with the cars
while | went back to look after human
lives"
Conductor, do you know who l ami"
"NO; and L don't care"
81 am John w. Garrett"
"Well, don't care if you are. If
you value freight more than human
lives, l don't. And L will burn up a
dozen trains before I'll let one of your
Cheap John brakemen kill a few dozen
people"
Clements stalked ,away and busted
himself directing the wrecking crew
engaged. He rose steadily until he
became master of transportation of the
xvhnla rnaH
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
He Met the Difficulty.

A we'll known foreman of a large
New York newspaper composing room
although austere inside the Office and
favoring nobody, and decidedly good
fellow Outside-was very fond of IA
good joke, which usually partook of a
rather practical nature. Some years
ago "chapel" meeting was held on
the question of having too many COM
pOsitors on the paper, and a committee
of six was appointed to wait upon the
foreman and try to get him to consent
to reduce the force. A gentleman who
is still known among New York print
ers was chosen chairman of the COM
mittee and spokesman, and he and his
associates waited upon the cold man."
and stated the case, saying that if the
force were reduced those remaining
could make decent living, when the
following cOlloquy took place:
GLOW many too many men do you
think are on the paper 2"
1--WE have considered the matter, and
we think six is about the number"
The foreman glanced, with twinkle
in his eye, from one end of the com
mittee line to the other, and said, with
a wave of the hand across "Well,
you six can co." and they were dis
charged
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
archbishop of America"

A good story is told of an adventure
which DR.. Mcknight, rector of Trinity
church, New York, had in attending
the services in Westminster abbey,
celebrating the jubilee of Queen Vic
tOria's coronation. The doctor had no
ticket of admission, but bethinking
himself of an acquaintance he had with
the archbishop, he approached the
grand doOrkeeper and said: "l'm from
America, and l would like to see the
archbishop" The functionary caught
a portion of his sentence, glanced at
his clerical dress, and with respect
full flourish waved him inside, handed
him over to an usher, who marched
him down the stately aisle, while the
official voice rang out in awful tones ::
"The Archbishop of Americam The
doctor, overcome by his embarrassing
situation for moment, was placed in
one of the best seats in the front of the
house, among all the ''first quality
folks" where he greatly enjoyed the
succeeding exercises. And there was
not better man in the abbey than the
innocent wearer of the big title of the
Archbishop of America"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Killed by Cigarettes.
Boston Journal


Recently it was announced that a
young man named Knevals, whose
father was the law partner of the late
President Arthur, was found dead in
his bed in New York city. He was a
young man of fine physique, and SEEM
ed healthy and vigorous young man.
Indeed, so strong did he appear that it
was hard for his friends to believe that
he died a natural death. His case was
so much mystery that his friends
caused an autopsy to be made by dis
tinguished surgeons, which disclosed
the fact that he was killed by cigar
cites, of which he was an excessive
sixty. 1t was found that the functions
of the heart were so impaired that it
had become feeble organ, and it's
feeble fiutterings produced congestion
of the brain, with attendant coma,
which caused his death. The habit of
smoking cigarettes was contracted
when he was boy, and from that time
the deadly undermining was going on
until he died. Physicians have de-
clared that the cigarette, as made and
used in this country, is deadly agent
compared with which tobacco used in
other forms is harmless. 1t is said that
many brands of cigarettes contain 9TH
er deadly pOisons than the nicotine
which the tobacco contains. In addi-
ton to this, the cigarette smoker usu
ally inhales the smoke, thus depositing
the poison which it contains in the
membranes of the throat and lungs.
The evils of cigarette smoking are so
we'll known to medical men that it is
reported that at recent examination
for candidates for West Point all the
young men were rejected upon whom
the traces of cigarette smoking were
found upon the heart.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
The Fruit Crop a Failure.

The Chicago Tribune says the fruit
dealers of the United States have been
placed in an unprecedented situation.
Except in California the fruit crop
throughout the country virtually has
failed. In Chicago, as elsewhere,
stocks of dried and preserved goods
are about exhausted, and owing to the
scarcity of labor on the Pacific coast
cannot be replaced, although whole
sale prices have risen from 10 to Is
per cent. Canned goods, especially
fruits, are going to retail during the
winter at fully so per cent. above the
prices year previous. According to
the Tribune an increase of 25 per cent.
to CALIFORNIA; last years pack will not
be sufficient to prevent the threatened
canned fruit famine in the East.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
A French Patriots Ordeal.
Toronto Week.

Lamartine was once visited by a
deputatiOn of "Vesuviennes." furious
female republicans of the petroleuse
type. The captain was the spokes-
woman. She told him that the "Vesu-
viennes" had come to tell him how
much they loved him. "There are 50
of US here" she added, "and our mis-
sion is, in the name of all the others,
to kiss you" This announcement
made the poet shudder. The captain
of the gang was tOlerably good look
ing, but the others were a horrible
looking, half-drunken and half crazy
set of viragOes. He was equal to the
emergency. "Citizens," said he, 81
thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This is certainly the happiest day of
my life; but permit me to say that
splendid patriots like you cannot be
treated as women. You must be re
garded as men and, since men do not
kiss one another, we must content our
selves with hearty hand shaking"
The ladies considered themselves high
ly cOmplimented. "Vive LamartiDe p
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Old Milk Dangerous to Public Health.

Correspondence Boston Herald.
Milk is the food nature has provided
for the young of animals to pass direct
ly from the mother to the infant man,
dog, rabbit or other mammal. No in
tervening process of cooling is prOvid-
ed for, and if we desire to use this rich
animal food, common sense would
seem to teach that if possible it should
be used while yet warm from the COW.
Does any one claim that it is better to
take milk from the COW and cool it.,
and wait four days or a week before
using it?
If the adulteration of milk with a
small quantity of water is dangerous to
an infant, infinitely more so is unadul
terated milk which has been allowed
to stand AZ hours before being con-
sumed. There is where the great dan
ger lies, and L believe that old milk
causes more cholera infantum and
more deaths than milk mixed with wa
ter does. At the last meeting which |
attended of the Massachusetts District
Medical Society there was very
strong expression of opinion on this
subject. In fact, vote was passed by
which the physicians pledged them
selves to exert every effort to discoun-
tenance the use of old milk, and they
agreed, moreover, not to buy any
themselves from contractors who de-
livered that which they had on hand
"a hours before distribution"
Why is the old milk dangerous
That is a very important question,
and one which in very short time
can be more intelligently answered.
At the last meeting of the National
Health Association in Toronto, Prof
Vaughn of the University of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, reported certain very i'm
portant investigations he was making,
and which, at that time, proved the
presence in old milk of tyrOtoxicOn
germ. This germ he had taken out
and then given to cats, which
were at once rendered violently Ill
with all the symptoms of cholera in
fantum. He had progressed far enough
with the study to be positive that this
germ is an unfailing cause of the dis
eases in children. Another gentleman,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
What a Creature is Man.

What strange, restless, unreason-
able, evanescent tiy-up-the creek man
is. No other being that breathes the
breath of life can ever hope to equal
him in doing things which he after
ward bitterly regrets, admitting al
ways, however, that his wife got him
into it. No other anthropoid, planti-
grade, pachyderm or mollusk can ever
hope to compete with high brOwed,
man, in making large, oval
chump of himself and then coming
right out frankly and admitting that
his wife is to blame for it. No other
male mammal, when it pounds its
thumb with ii k-hammer, turns and
throws the hammer at the female of it's
species. Bill Nye in the World.